Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Peter Goselin on U.S. foreign policy

What difference does it make if Bernie Sanders, as a
presidential candidate, has remained mostly silent on foreign policy?

The
U.S. client state, Saudi Arabia, is conducting bombing raids on rebels in
Yemen. Yesterday, the bombing of a wedding party resulted in the deaths of 135
people, mostly women and children.

The U.S. client state, Egypt, has been accused by human
rights activists of crimes against humanity, including the massacre of more
than 800 protesters in 2013. Last week the Committee to Protect Journalists
sent a letter to President Sisi complaining that his regime continues to harass
and attack journalists reporting on conditions in that country.

The U.S. client state, Turkey, is accused by an
investigatory report of British jurists of human rights violations. The report
claims that opponents of the regime "have suffered systematic purges that
have removed as many as 40,000 employees from public positions, led to mass
arrests and in some cases periods of detention."

The U.S. client state, Israel, has recently been described
by Bradley Burston, a Haaretz columnist and Senior Editor of Haaretz.com, with
well-established credentials as a pro-zionist journalist, as an apartheid
government.

The U.S. client state, Hungary, is in the midst of a refugee
crisis because of failed U.S. policies in Libya, Iraq, and Syria. Among the
measures it is taking to keep out refugees: a razor wire fence on its border
with Serbia. The hardline president of that U.S. ally claims that these steps
are necessary because Hungary is protecting European Christian culture from
Muslims

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We already know and have come to expect that the liberals
who support Obama and candidate Clinton will not speak out on any of these
issues even IF they oppose these developments. Americans and the people of the
world are looking to see what a "progressive" American presidential
candidate has to say about these developments.

That the "progressive" candidate is silent, that
his silence encourages the silence of his supporters, that his silence endorses
the atrocities carried out by U.S. allies (and, indeed, by the U.S. itself) is
a deep and horrible harm. It tells the American people and the world that
"progressivism" in the U.S. is silent on, and therefore complicit in,
U.S, imperialism.

Since 1995, Attorney Peter Goselin has been
representing employees in virtually every kind of dispute
with employers. Following ten years as a partner in the firm of Livingston,
Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelly, Peter recently established a solo
practice, The Law Office of Peter Goselin in Hartford

A
graduate with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law, Peter is
admitted to practice in Connecticut’s state and federal
courts and in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

About Me

Gulamhusein A. Abba is an 88-year-old writer with more than 60 years in journalism. He is originally from Bombay (now Mumbai), where his writings have been published in almost all the important news media, in English, Urdu, Gujarati and Marathi, and where he functioned in various capacities, including reporter, news and political analyst, columnist, editor and publisher.
He was also a trade unionist,
peace and justice activist and took part in political activities.
As a trade unionist he organized the maritime petty officers and the film studio workers.
He founded and was the Chairman of the Rule of Law Committee and Taxi Users' Association
In the US, he is the chairman of Justice for Palestinians Committee, and, The Danbury Committee for World Peace.
In May of 2011, The Danbury Bar Association conferred on him the prestigious Honorary AMERICAN DREAM AWARD.